Index Mismatch in Orca Terminal Tool Allowed Retry Limits to Reset Infinitely

A bug in Orca, a desktop tool for managing terminals and AI agent workflows, caused its retry limiter to lose control due to a mismatch between two internal indexes tracking terminal state. When the display cleanup function consulted a different index than the one used for remounting, it could erase a terminal's recovery history even while that terminal remained eligible for further remounts. This allowed the same tab to receive conflicting answers from two separate lookups, effectively resetting the retry budget on each cycle. A reported Windows crash linked to the issue described eight tabs remounting 8,878 times in under two minutes, though researchers worked from the public codebase rather than the original crash data. The proposed fix resolves the inconsistency by ensuring both the remount check and the cleanup predicate rely on the same terminal-row lookup, without altering the retry cap itself.
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